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5 Céntimos Pliego
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Pliego |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1134-C |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink, enclosed within a geometric border frame. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the left, with the full text of the obligation legend distributed across the note face in a formal municipal typographic layout. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black ink, with the face value numeral repeated across the note. The crowned coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centered, flanked by the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions in a plain typographic arrangement. |
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Pliego is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento resorted to issuing its own fractional paper currency after Republican authorities failed to maintain an adequate supply of small change. The centimo shortages of 1936–37 were severe enough that local councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses across Republican Spain printed their own emergency notes — a phenomenon now catalogued in the thousands of distinct pieces.
The Gari Mon reference places this within the standard corpus of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. Survivors are common as a category but individually scarce by town — Pliego's output was small.